“And here we are.” Hip-hop is a music genre and cultural movement that originated through African Americans in the South Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s. The phenomenon has moved ...

Mayor Adams anointed himself the city’s first hip hop mayor Wednesday when he unveiled ... which is expected to open two years from now in the South Bronx. Flanked by a who’s who of rap ...

It was on this day 49 years ago (August 11, 1973) that Kool Herc threw his legendary back-to-school basement party, which would go on to create the foundation for Hip Hop music through the ...

The earliest hip-hop culture was a reflection of those difficult realities in the South Bronx. “Poverty was the flavor of the day,” said Murphy, who also grew up in the South Bronx in the 1960s.

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the community room at their apartment building in the South Bronx.

Before production began on the 1984 film “Beat Street,” a semi-fictional drama about the early days of hip-hop and breaking in the South Bronx, a researcher on the production team visited ...

The Hip Hop Museum's Journey Home to the South Bronx "By then, Hip Hop was so much more than just a music genre. It had not only shaped identity, expression, art and technology for my generation ...

“And now we’re officially welcoming members of the community into brand-new, permanently affordable housing here in the South Bronx,” Bucano added. “The Hip Hop Museum is proud to be a part of the ...

The birth of the art form that became hip-hop is traced back, in music legend, to a party in the South Bronx, some 50 years ago. DJ Kool Herc spun his turntables on August 11, 1973, introducing a ...

The earliest hip-hop culture was a reflection of those difficult realities in the South Bronx. New York City as a whole was facing bankruptcy in the 70s, and the Bronx, which was already suffering ...

The earliest hip-hop culture was a reflection of those difficult realities in the South Bronx. “Poverty was the flavor of the day,” said Murphy, who also grew up in the South Bronx in the 1960s.